Tag: Energy
When Next-Generation Geothermal Meets First-of-a-Kind Reality
Eavor is a next-generation geothermal energy company that set out to solve one of the long-standing limits of geothermal power. Conventional geothermal electrical generation only works where naturally permeable, water bearing hot rock exists close enough to the surface. Eavor’s idea was different. Instead of relying on naturally flowing hot … [continued]
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UK Gets More Offshore Wind As Trump Tries To Block It
At every stage of technological development, you get laggards who don’t want to move forward and make that new technology into some kind of massive risk or problem. That has been proven quite definitively with clean energy technologies. Solar power and wind power come with so many benefits and so … [continued]
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Trump Redirects Pollution-Control Funding to Prop Up More Polluting Coal Plants
Washington, D.C. — Today, Politico reported that the Trump administration will use funding legally directed by Congress to reduce pollution to instead help build new and prop up aging, expensive, polluting coal plants. Responding to competitive pressure from lower cost and lower risk resources, utilities have voluntarily retired 158 coal plants over … [continued]
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Students & Community Groups Cry Foul As University of Oregon Increases Fossil Fuel Use By Over Fifty Percent
Eugene, Oregon — Students and community groups raised the alarm today after discovering that, on January 6th, the University of Oregon began a pilot project, using an additional large “natural” methane gas turbine to generate electricity to sell to the local publicly owned utility, Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB). … [continued]
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Trump Judge Hands Another Offshore Wind #FAIL To Trump
Offshore wind turbines have been the bête noire of US President Donald Trump ever since 2013, when he brought a case against an offshore project in Scotland. He lost, and the rage has lingered all these years. The President can’t smack back against wind turbines in Scottish waters, but he … [continued]
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